Thinking of Chris M. Thomasson: From shadertoys to computetoys? (Re: TDR solutions --> work slicing)

From	Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm>
Newsgroups	sci.logic
Subject	Thinking of Chris M. Thomasson: From shadertoys to computetoys? (Re: TDR solutions --> work slicing)
Date	2026-07-09 09:52 +0200
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Hi,

Over the recent days was often thinking
about Chris M. Thomasson. I am somehow
familiar with his work on sci.math etc..

even back in times before there was the
gexit (Google Groups Exit) and AP (Archimedes
Plutonium) was enriching the forums.

So whats the evolution here?

Well we had shadertoys:

https://www.shadertoy.com/

Now have computetoys:

https://compute.toys/

The https://compute.toys/view/3138 (Spinning
Terrain) example drives my GPU on the Ryzen
up to 91 degree, normally it has 44 degree

temperature or something.

LoL

Bye

Mild Shock schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> Current workaround, for workloads which take
> longer, regedit TdrDelay and TdrDdiDelay:
> 
> GPU drivers crash with long computations (TDR crash)
> https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/substance-3d-painter/using/technical-support/technical-issues/gpu-issues/gpu-drivers-crash-with-long-computations-tdr-crash 
> 
> 
> Future solution is work slicing. Make the
> GPU inferencing granular. Since I am using
> 
> a Hack virtual machine, adding a "Heartbeat"
> should be possible, Dogelog Player has
> 
> already some auto-yield (*). Mostlikely this will
> then prevent the OS from killing the GPU.
> 
> Will see! WebLLM etc.. can also do it.
> 
> Bye
> 
> (*) A browser does also kill a long runnning
> JavaScript, it was a similar issue.
> 
> Chris M. Thomasson schrieb:
>> On 7/8/2026 11:44 AM, Mild Shock wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We can thank the gamers, that GPUs developed muscles:
>>>
>>> The global video game industry contributes hundreds
>>> of billions to worldwide GDP, generating over $500
>>> billion in total market volume. The global software
>>> and services market alone accounts for an estimated
>>> $255 billion, easily surpassing the film and recorded
>>> music industries combined.
>>>
>>> How it started:
>>>
>>> URP Cookbook: Compute shaders - Part 1: Particle fun
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omZap7XHxKc
>> [...]
>>
>> Compute shaders are pretty nice. Except then the damn os can cancel 
>> them because they took too long! God damn windows! ;^)
>>
>> I have ported my field to compute shaders and geometry shaders. They 
>> work great! A compute shader can take a field from say 30 seconds on a 
>> high performance multi-threaded cpu version down to around 3 seconds. 
>> The compute shader is using atomic operations for thread, or warp sync.
>>
>> The geometry shader makes my field in real time.
>>
>

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        Halfing the AI Laptop Budget: Ne-Meow sold out! (Re: Even the Buddos are clueless [Did Tarau see Liliputians?]) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-05-10 09:09 +0200
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        Re: Introduction to AI Accelerator Prolog [π-WAM of Dogelog] (Re: Prolog Expert Ginis (PEGs) on a Keychain) "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-07-17 13:03 -0700
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            Milners fickle() in pi-WAM [For fun and profit] (Re: pi in pi-WAM refers to pi-calculus) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-18 01:50 +0200
              Re: Milners fickle() in pi-WAM [For fun and profit] (Re: pi in pi-WAM refers to pi-calculus) Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-07-18 01:34 -0700
                Robin Milners pi calculus is typeless (Was: Milners fickle() in pi-WAM [For fun and profit]) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-18 10:57 +0200
                Can the Church Turing hypotheses be refuted? [TLo @ FOM] (Was: Robin Milners pi calculus is typeless) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-18 11:08 +0200
    AI Laptops are just strange novel xBoxes (Was: AI dooms day escape: Güttinger Wald) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-08 20:44 +0200
      Re: AI Laptops are just strange novel xBoxes (Was: AI dooms day escape: Güttinger Wald) "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-07-08 15:22 -0700
        TDR solutions --> work slicing (Was: AI Laptops are just strange novel xBoxes) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-09 09:47 +0200
          Thinking of Chris M. Thomasson: From shadertoys to computetoys? (Re: TDR solutions --> work slicing) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-09 09:52 +0200
    FYI: Unified Memory Architecture (UMA) (Re: Implementing Gas for a Compute Shader [Avoid TDR]) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-09 19:43 +0200
      The Wider von Neumann Neck (Re: FYI: Unified Memory Architecture (UMA)) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-10 07:51 +0200
        The new MIMD Warp is the cherry on top (Re: The Wider von Neumann Neck) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-10 08:08 +0200
        Dumbwit, just run it on your RTX 5070 trash (Re: The Wider von Neumann Neck) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-10 15:49 +0200
          We are still waiting for results! [Confused Dumbwit] (Re: We are waiting Dumbwit: 1 Month, 3 Months, .. [node.js dawn]) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-10 22:45 +0200
            404 Brain not Found [GPU saturation] (Re: We are still waiting for results! [Confused Dumbwit]) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-10 23:40 +0200
              I nowhere talked about 10GB/s (Re: 404 Brain not Found [GPU saturation]) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-10 23:41 +0200
                I nowhere said something about AI (Re: I nowhere talked about 10GB/s) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-10 23:52 +0200
                What do you not understand in "budget"? (Re: I nowhere said something about AI) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-11 00:08 +0200
                SWI makes only MLips not GLips (Re: What do you not understand in "budget"?) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-11 00:09 +0200
                micro penis got hurt by "budget" (Re: SWI makes only MLips not GLips) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-12 19:20 +0200
  Micro Penis Nemesis: Shoe String Budget π-WAM (Was: Paul Tarau versus Mr. Taskmanager, who would win?) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-12 19:26 +0200
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                flogging a dead horse PCI VRAM graphic cards (Re: nothing gets blocked except your brain [LPDDR5X-RAM]) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-13 13:52 +0200
              GPUs evolved from SIMD to MIMD [NVIDIA Volta 2017] (Re: herpes blister rossy boy is confused) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-20 17:11 +0200
                A.D.I.D.A.S. Gopnik lost his screws (Re: GPUs evolved from SIMD to MIMD [NVIDIA Volta 2017]) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-20 19:58 +0200
  I'm a spinner, I'm a sinner [Dmitry Vyukov for pi-WAM] (Re: Paul Tarau versus Mr. Taskmanager, who would win? [A PDP-11 Humunkulus from 1979] Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-19 11:55 +0200
    Gemini, DeepSeek, OpenAI all know Dmitriy V'jukov (Re: I'm a spinner, I'm a sinner [Dmitry Vyukov for pi-WAM]) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-20 08:33 +0200
      The Cache Identity Crisis by Micro Penis (Re: Gemini, DeepSeek, OpenAI all know Dmitriy V'jukov) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-20 13:54 +0200
        Just RTFM the RDNA 3.5 specs! [GPU Cache Lines] (Re: The Cache Identity Crisis by Micro Penis) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-20 14:10 +0200
          The large memory tax: ECC RAM (Re: Just RTFM the RDNA 3.5 specs! [GPU Cache Lines]) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-20 14:23 +0200
          Re: Just RTFM the RDNA 3.5 specs! [GPU Cache Lines] (Re: The Cache Identity Crisis by Micro Penis) Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-07-20 12:26 -0700
            Re: Just RTFM the RDNA 3.5 specs! [GPU Cache Lines] (Re: The Cache Identity Crisis by Micro Penis) R Kym Horsell <kymhorsell@gmail.com> - 2026-07-20 22:20 +0000
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                Breaking the CUDA edge in AI by WebGPU (Was: Friendly Reminder: GPU 10x more performant than CPU) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-21 00:56 +0200
                Like WebAssembly before it, WebGPU has "escaped" the browser. (Was: Breaking the CUDA edge in AI by WebGPU) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-21 01:05 +0200
            Re: Just RTFM the RDNA 3.5 specs! [GPU Cache Lines] (Re: The Cache Identity Crisis by Micro Penis) Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-07-20 21:36 -0700
              rossy boy is going paranoid (Was: Just RTFM the RDNA 3.5 specs! [GPU Cache Lines]) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-21 09:01 +0200
                Re: rossy boy is going paranoid (Was: Just RTFM the RDNA 3.5 specs! [GPU Cache Lines]) Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2026-07-21 00:56 -0700
        L1,..,Ln caches are located on the CPU AND on the GPU (Was: The Cache Identity Crisis by Micro Penis( Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-20 19:35 +0200
          GPU Cache Hierarchy: Understanding L1, L2, and VRAM (Was: L1,..,Ln caches are located on the CPU AND on the GPU) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-20 19:40 +0200
            Well thats good, co-location, onto the same processor die (Re: GPU Cache Hierarchy: Understanding L1, L2, and VRAM (Was: L1,..,Ln caches are located on the CPU AND on the GPU) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-20 22:02 +0200
              Where is micro penis mental error? (Re: Well thats good, co-location, onto the same processor die (Re: GPU Cache Hierarchy: Understanding L1, L2, and VRAM (Was: L1,..,Ln caches are located on the CPU AND on the GPU) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-20 22:07 +0200
      I didn't find Futex in WebGPU / WGSL (Re: Gemini, DeepSeek, OpenAI all know Dmitriy V'jukov) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-20 23:26 +0200
        There is no imageAtomicAdd in WGSL (Re: I didn't find Futex in WebGPU / WGSL) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-21 00:15 +0200
          OpenGL is dead. Apple said bye bye / Wayland Compositor (Re: There is no imageAtomicAdd in WGSL) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-21 00:26 +0200
          Flogging a Dead Horse, OpenGL is EOL (Re: There is no imageAtomicAdd in WGSL) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-21 01:39 +0200
            imageAtomicAdd trivial, Dmitry Vyukov requires capacity (Re: Flogging a Dead Horse, OpenGL is EOL) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-21 01:40 +0200
              capacity = 2^n for some n / systolic system (Re: imageAtomicAdd trivial, Dmitry Vyukov requires capacity) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-21 01:41 +0200
                Source of the benchmark for DmitryVyukov (Was: capacity = 2^n for some n / systolic system) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-21 01:44 +0200
          Re: There is no imageAtomicAdd in WGSL (Re: I didn't find Futex in WebGPU / WGSL) "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-07-20 16:59 -0700
            I never used OpenGL Version 4.2 and later (Was: There is no imageAtomicAdd in WGSL) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-21 08:47 +0200
              Because of MIMD you have to reassess algorithms (Re: I never used OpenGL Version 4.2 and later) Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2026-07-21 09:02 +0200

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